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.... Ironically, EU competition law that largely prevents state bailouts or nationalisation, was suspended in the case of the banks, who had trillions thrown at them or which were nationalised, courtesy of the taxpayer. A report published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development next month identifies some of these corrosive trends and suggests ways of reordering the world economy. ...
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.... Ironically, EU competition law that largely prevents state bailouts or nationalisation, was suspended in the case of the banks, who had trillions thrown at them or which were nationalised, courtesy of the taxpayer. A report published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development next month identifies some of these corrosive trends and suggests ways of reordering the world economy. ...

....Gatt, however, failed to cover many of the countries in the developing world. These countries eventually created their own system, the United Nations conference on trade and development (UNCTAD). ...

....Merkel pointed out that previous summits had been held in other large cities, such as London and Cannes, and that Hamburg could not have “shirked responsibility”. Her deputy, foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, had gone a step further, suggesting that every future G20 should be held in New York, the seat of the United Nations. ...

.... The UK ratified the agreement in 2005. The former UN secretary general Kofi Annan called it “the most ambitious venture in the area of environmental democracy so far undertaken under the auspices of the United Nations”. ...

....The South Sudan-Uganda refugee crisis is going to show whether these fine words mean anything. It is a test for donor governments, for the World Bank, for the United Nations and for the Global Partnership for Education, the international body that has the job of providing quality schooling for poor countries. ...

.... Puma is now replacing short-term contracts for workers who have given more than two years’ service. It was engaging with Better Factories Cambodia – a partnership between the United Nations’ labour organisation and the International Finance Corporation. ...

....For the past two years, Saudi Arabia has led a coalition of nations carrying out thousands of airstrikes in Yemen aimed at suppressing an insurgency by Houthi rebels. The campaign has been criticised by organisations including the United Nations for repeatedly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. ...

....Poverty reduction in the world’s poorest countries risks being diluted by the government’s increasing tendency to devote a bigger slice of Britain’s aid budget to pursuing the national interest, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned. The thinktank estimated that overseas development assistance would rise by £1bn during the course of the next parliament as a result of Theresa May’s pledge to continue meeting the United Nations 0. ...

....The loudest warnings came from MPs, peers, engineers and the industry itself over the impact that blocks to trade or freedom of movement would have on the nuclear and oil sectors. However, the UK’s departure from the union also risks damaging urgent efforts to make the continent’s energy systems greener and more efficient, an adviser to the head of the United Nations has told the Observer. ...

....Ironically, a chief architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, lived as a fugitive in the same neighbourhood as Claudia when she was a child in Argentina, as she would later learn. The importance of the mission to recover victims' names received global recognition in 2013 when the United Nations cultural agency, Unesco, included the collection in its Memory of the World register. ...

....“A no-go area in the science of AI is research into intelligent weapon systems that open fire without a human decision having been made,” the report states. “The consequences of malfunctions of such machines are immense, so it is all the more desirable that not only the US, but also the United Nations discusses a ban on autonomous weapon systems. ...

. A United Nations committee has asked the UK to suspend work on the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset because of the government’s failure to consult with European countries over the project. ...

....But at the end of a one-year £1m trial in the market town of Swadlincote, Derbyshire – the first in the UK to engage consumers and find new ways to reduce their waste – it has been abandoned as it is unlikely to be met. The goal is in line with the United Nations’ sustainable development target of halving per capita global food waste at retail and consumer level and reducing food losses along production and supply chains by 2030. ...

....But at the end of a one-year £1m trial in the market town of Swadlincote, Derbyshire – the first in the UK to engage consumers and find new ways to reduce their waste – it has been abandoned as it is unlikely to be met. The goal is in line with the United Nations’ sustainable development target of halving per capita global food waste at retail and consumer level and reducing food losses along production and supply chains by 2030. ...

.... It warned of extreme weather, floods, famines and climate refugees as fossil fuel burning warmed the world. The serious warning was “endorsed by a uniquely broad consensus of scientists in their report to the United Nations at the end of 1990”, the film noted. ...

.... Four-fifths of the population is in need of aid, and famine is gripping the country. But despite this, and protests from human rights groups and the United Nations, the UK has continued to arm the Saudi regime, licensing about £3. ...

.... “We must ensure this endeavour is not derailed,” Xi said of the agreement. With Trump reportedly preparing to slash US funding for the United Nations – an organisation he recently called “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time” – Chinese state media has played up Beijing’s increasingly active role within the UN. ...

....Moreover, economic inequality among countries has declined sharply in the past 20 years, owing partly to China’s rise, as well as to economic development across Asia, Latin America and elsewhere. In fact, by 2010, the United Nations had already achieved its millennium development goal of halving poverty by 2015, and recent projections suggest that, by 2050, poverty will be eradicated everywhere except Africa. ...

....Scaramucci, founder of hedge fund SkyBridge Capital and lavish Las Vegas investment conference Salt, is expected to this week be given an official White House role advising Trump on business affairs. Xi is attending Davos as part of a three-day state visit to Switzerland, including a speech to the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday. ...

....In the petition against the character's appointment, opponents said the image she projected was "not culturally encompassing or sensitive". "It is alarming that the United Nations would consider using a character with an overtly sexualised image at a time when the headline news in United States and the world is the objectification of women and girls," it said. ...

....If all of the world's human waste were to be collected and used for biogas generation, the potential value could be as high as $9. 5bn or enough to supply the electricity for 138 million households - around all of Indonesia, Brazil and Ethiopia combined, the United Nations has calculated. ...

.... These were preludes to the “second coming”, not of Christ, but of a liberalism built on firmer social foundations. But were the nightmares of depression and war necessary preludes? Is horror the price we must pay for progress? Evil has indeed often been the agent of good (without Hitler, no United Nations, no Pax Americana, no European Union, no taboo on racism, no decolonisation, no Keynesian economics, and much else). ...

....Almost 69 million teachers need to be recruited around the world by 2030 if international pledges on education are to be kept, warns Unesco. The United Nations agency's estimate is for the number of teachers required to meet the promise of primary and secondary places for all children. ...

....Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last month that India would ratify the agreement on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the struggle for independence from Britain. "India has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Paris Agreement with the United Nations," the UN said in a statement on Sunday. ...

....The most powerful woman in global football is not the chief executive of a top team, a high-flying financier, or a close advisor of a club-owning oligarch. Rather she is an administrator who has spent two decades working for the United Nations, and who now - as secretary general of world football body Fifa - has the power to shape the game and its position in society and industry for years to come. ...

....". Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Soros said he would work with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Rescue Committee, to decide how best to invest the money. ...

....In April, China promised to reduce its steel output, following a crisis meeting attended by 30 nations. The President met Premier Li Keqiang on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. ...

....This work has seen him receive an award from the Pan American Health Organization, the public health agency that operates in all 35 nations across North and South America. Mauricio is also the holder of a Brazilian presidential medal of honour, and his Monica cartoon character was named a United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) ambassador in 2007. ...

.... And last week, German police arrested another Syrian refugee after receiving a tip-off that he was planning a possible Islamist-motivated attack. The United Nations has warned against demonising refugees and migrants on the basis of isolated, if devastating, acts of violence. ...

....Winning over those who once damned the vaccine was a delicate business. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which runs the immunisation campaign, is a partnership between the United Nations and national governments. ...

....The government accused Lopez, one of leftist President Nicolas Maduro's most hardline opponents, of inciting the violence. His sentence, handed down in September after a closed-door trial, was strongly condemned by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union. ...

....Earlier Mr Putin chaired a meeting with Russian security chiefs to discuss "additional measures for ensuring security for citizens and essential infrastructure in Crimea," the Kremlin said in a statement. The United Nations Security Council was to meet to discus the crisis on Thursday evening at the request of Ukraine, a non-permanent member. ...

.... In May, a 23-year-old Iranian died after setting himself alight on Nauru. The United Nations high commissioner for refugees has urged Australia to remove all asylum seekers and refugees from offshore detention. ...

....". The statement said the proceedings did not affect the recent opinion of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations, which found that Mr Assange was being arbitrarily detained. ...

....Russia has announced a daily three-hour ceasefire in Aleppo to allow aid in, following intense international pressure to ease the dire situation in the Syrian city. Humanitarian corridors, which Moscow said would be overseen by the United Nations, will be opened up and a truce covering the hours of 10am to 1pm will be effective from Thursday, Lt. ...

....net/what\-we\-do/every\-one\-campaign) in Liberia, the branding of children as witches has become commonplace. The taboos that surround the subject mean it is under\-reported to authorities: [Between 2012 and 2015, the United Nations recorded cases where at least 214 people were accused of witchcraft](http://www. ...

....net/what\-we\-do/every\-one\-campaign) in Liberia, the branding of children as witches has become commonplace. The taboos that surround the subject mean it is under\-reported to authorities: [Between 2012 and 2015, the United Nations recorded cases where at least 214 people were accused of witchcraft](http://www. ...

....co/OMj8PuinEM. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) considers LGBT refugees as particularly vulnerable and prioritises their cases for resettlement to third countries, but the process is slow, taking an average of two years, according to UNHCR’s Turkey office. ...

. Over 300 anti-narcotics and human rights groups from around the world on Tuesday called for the United Nations to condemn Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs that has resulted in a sharp increase in drug killing. ...

....Japan’s prime minister condemned an “unforgivable act” on Wednesday when North Korea fired two nuclear-capable missiles towards his country, one of which landed within 200 miles of the coast. The Rodong medium-range missiles were launched in breach of a series of United Nations resolutions. ...

....The US military launched the first of what is expected to be a sustained series of air strikes in Libya targeting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's stronghold of Sirte. Strikes were authorised by President Barack Obama after being requested by the United Nations-backed government in Libya. ...

....The government announced an opening of humanitarian corridors last Thursday, but only a few dozen families have so far left. The United Nations has raised misgivings about the plan and US officials suggested it might be an attempt to depopulate the city so that the army can seize it. ...

....The UN last week said civilian casualties rose to a record high in the first half of 2016, with children in particular paying a heavy price as the conflict escalates. Between January and June, 1,601 civilians were killed and 3,565 were wounded - a four percent increase in casualties compared to the same period last year, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said. ...

.... The New York-based Physicians for Human Rights says over 90 percent of attacks on medical facilities in Syria have been carried out by pro-government forces. In the capital, Damascus, Ramzy Ramzy, the UN's deputy special envoy for Syria, reiterated the United Nations' intent to resume talks between the government and the opposition in late August, saying he discussed a political transition process with foreign minister Walid Moallem. ...

....“Refugees, like all people, are treasured human beings, made in the image of God, who deserve safety, freedom and the opportunity to flourish,” he said. Ms Rudd dismissed fears about the security consequences of taking in the refugees, saying everyone being resettled in Britain was double-vetted by the United Nations and the Home Office. ...

.... Footage taken by a local TV station on Friday of the designated Bustan al-Qasr crossing seemed to show a concrete barrier blocking the road, though it was not clear whether it had been erected by the rebels or the government. Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Syria envoy, who had not been informed of the offer ahead of the announcement, yesterday urged Russia to let the world body take charge of the passages. ...

. The former president of Brazil has filed a petition to the United Nations claiming human rights abuses by his own country as he faces arrest over a corruption scandal threatening to overshadow the Olympics, the Telegraph can disclose. ...

....In the 19th century, international order had been secured through the Concert of Europe – informal summits of the great European powers, which then ruled most of the world, and helped to keep the peace between 1815 to 1914. But after 1918, the Concert was replaced, first by the League of Nations, and then by the United Nations. ...

.... As did John Kasich, the governor of Ohio - the vital swing state where the convention was being held - and party grandees such as John McCain, the 2008 presidential candidate, and Mitt Romney, the 2012 nominee. In an interview with The Telegraph, John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, said: "We have a lot of work to do to unify the party. ...

.... . Mr Johnson, in New York for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, was quoted by the BBC as saying he had "absolutely no doubt that a balance can be struck" between access to the single market and free movement of labour. ...

....Two British police officers have been banned from rejoining UN peacekeepers in South Sudan after they were allegedly evacuated by the Foreign Office without telling mission chiefs. Their sudden departure is said to have damaged morale on the peacekeeping mission and prompted questions from UN figures over Britain's future standing on the United Nations Security Council. ...

....Coalition forces led by Saudi Arabia could have breached humanitarian laws in Yemen, the Foreign Office has admitted in an embarrassing about-turn. The news came after a United Nations’ report released last month found that the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen was responsible for killing more than 500 children in its year-long campaign of airstrikes. ...

....com/JFlAKDj2yh. "(Syria) condemns, with the strongest terms, the two bloody massacres perpetrated by the French and US warplanes and those affiliated to the so-called international coalition which send their missiles and bombs to the civilians instead of directing them to the terrorist gangs," it said in a letter sent to the United Nations this week, according to state news agency SANA. ...

.... “It is vital we broaden the discussion on how to advance women’s rights and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict. “I am looking forward to teaching and to learning from the students, as well as to sharing my own experiences of working alongside governments and the United Nations. ...

.... These unexpected moves come hot on the heels of revelations by Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, that it plans to sell off parts of its national oil company and diversify its economy away from petroleum. They also come in the aftermath of a United Nations climate change agreement and before annual general meetings for Shell and Exxon Mobil this week, meetings at which shareholders will demand that more be done to tackle climate change. ...

. The British government has run into a major new problem with the Hinkley Point C nuclear project, with a United Nations committee ruling that the UK failed to consult European countries properly over potential environmental risks. ...

....3tn of assets from Russia were sitting offshore. The figures, which came from compiling and cross-checking data from global institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations, follow the Panama Papers revelations of global, systemic tax avoidance. ...

.... He and Cameron will then fly to Germany for a summit with the German, Italian and French leaders on Monday about the future of Libya. The United Nations envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, has said foreign powers should offer training and military support to Libya’s fledgling government, combined with an end to the UN arms embargo. ...

.... The OECD said a survey of donor spending plans through 2019 suggested flows to the poorest countries will keep rising. The OECD said aid budgets, adjusted for inflation, had increased by 83% since 2000 when the United Nations set its 2015 millennium development goals. ...

.... A few centuries ago, when Llanrwst was one of the biggest towns in Wales, it blew a great fat raspberry to Edward I and his flunkeys, and declared independence with its own flag and motto. And even as late as 1947 the local council, it is said, made an application for recognition to the United Nations. ...